upperworks
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upperworks pl (plural only)
- (nautical) superstructure
- 1939 July, “Overseas Railways: Baltic Island Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:
- On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
- (slang) head; brains